[mythtv-users] Recording SkyTV on MythTV box?

[Gary Dawes]

On 28/11/06, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'd just like to confirm that somebody is actually doing this? Are
> there any pitfalls or gotchas I should beware of :) ?
> We have Sky in the UK and and present scart feeds our Tivo box.
>
> I plan to replace the Tivo with Myth but would like to retain the
> ability to record from Sky and have Myth change channels on the Sky
> receiver etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
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used to with no major problems, I've now swapped to Telewest/ntl with much
the same setup. I just pull the video via scart into a tv-card video-in. Ir
control was controlled by a irda module plugged into the ir headers on the
motherboard, although when I switched I had to build the simple transmitter
circuit from the lirc site, and it only cost a couple of quid for the parts
from maplin, and it'd work for Sky as well. If you've got money, and don't
want the faffing about then look at the redremote serial device

I followed the instructions from the lirc site and recorded a lirc.conf for
my remote control, as my digibox didn't seem to like the downloaded one. I
also called channel.pl directly from the excternal channel change field
rather than using the wrapper bash script, which just seemed to upset
things.

This is a good link for the remote control stuff
http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/mythtv/lirc/

cheers

gary
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